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By Septimus Senessie in Kono

After almost 25 years the district head quarter town of the diamondiferous Kono district has finally got electricity after last week’s pre-commissioning of the facility by President Ernest Bai Koroma.

The president turned on the two 1.2 megawatt power generators in Koidu on his first visit to the district in two years.

He was accompanied by six local MPs and two members of the district and city councils.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A Freetown magistrates’ court has issued a bench warrant for a police officer for failing to testify as an investigator in an alleged assault and wounding matter before it.

The officer, Detective Police Constable 14218 David Moses Stafford Kalokoh, an investigator attached to the Criminal Investigations Department at the Lumley police station, failed to testify before the court on three consecutive occasions.

He was to also tender a voluntary caution statement by the accused to the police in court.

Miss Sankoh and Dep Min of children's affairs, MD Atilla

A class five pupil, who turned 10 on 22 November, chose to celebrate her birthday with children many of whom have lost either or both their parents to Ebola.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Pujehun District chairman of the ruling All People's Congress (APC), Mohamed Dabeni, has called for “complete intervention of all political parties in the fight to defeat the Ebola Virus Disease in Pujehun” in the south of the country.

The local politician also urged support from other development partners to work with their government in the fight to eradicate the epidemic in the entire country.

Wife of the dead man wailing as the house was being demolished

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

A sick octogenarian man died yesterday at Aberdeen after his house was demolished.

A US airline flying out the Cuban doctor

The Cuban doctor who was diagnosed this week with Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has been flown to the Geneva under the aegis of the UN World Health Organisation.

The United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson has announced his decision to designate Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months effective today owning to the Ebola outbreak in the three countries, a press release from the US immigration services (USCIS).

This is the same status under which many Liberians were allowed to stay in the world’s most advanced country during the civil war and later became US citizens.